Cross-national data: From questionnaire development to analysis

This two-and-a-half-day course addresses major aspects of working with multi-national, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural (3MC) data. It provides participants with valuable knowledge to draft and field questionnaires that are comparable across different cultures and languages. In addition, it introduces approaches to assess the comparability of collected data and shows strategies on how to deal with missing comparability.

Specifically, this course covers:

Discussion of equivalence and sources of bias that threaten comparability Questionnaire design for 3MC surveys Translatability assessments & translation approaches Pretesting approaches for 3MC surveys Discussion of 3MC data collection challenges Measurement equivalence testing approaches Strategies to deal with missing comparability

The course is a combination of lectures, exercises and a computer lab there where students learn to run measurement invariance tests with MPLUS or R.

The course also provides the opportunity to receive individual consultations with 3MC experts regarding own research projects.

After the course, participants are ready to apply the learned towards their own 3MC surveys, are able to critically assess existing 3MC surveys and survey documentations.

Participants are requested to bring their own laptop. Software will be available online.